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Communication Barriers (0):
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Communication Barriers
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To determine whether community-based asylum seekers experience difficulty in gaining access to primary health care services, and to determine the impact of any difficulties described.
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PMID: 21843121
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Therapeutische Umschau (68)8 2011
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We limit ourselves to the presentation of the working population of the migrants, because these represent the largest group of all migrants. The specific situation of asylum seekers will also be refrained to where appropriate....
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PMID: 21796592
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Xenobiotica (41)5 2011
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Nurse educators are challenged by students who did not learn Standard American English as a primary language. It is not only language that makes these students stand out-cultural beliefs, values and practices need to be appreciated as well. The purpose of this article is to synthesize the current qu...
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PMID: 19645373
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To implement a role-reversal exercise to increase first-year pharmacy students' awareness of communication barriers in the health care setting, especially for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients.
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PMID: 21655407
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Annals of Internal Medicine (154)7 2011
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a radio campaign in promoting the quality use of medicine (QUM) among Italian, Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking seniors.
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PMID: 21717838
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In Canada, more than 70% of new cases of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection per year involve injection drug users (IDUs) and, currently, there is no consensus on how to offer them medical care.
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PMID: 21499577
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Global health research often involves North-South partnerships. However, these types of partnerships present particular challenges. The aim of this study is to examine these challenges from the perspectives of those involved in order to formulate ideas for further discussion and acti...
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PMID: 21612053
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We live and work in a multicultural world and need to be knowledgeable about culture and how it affects the quality of care given to patients. Although people of the non-dominant culture may have knowledge of the English language, many have limited English proficiency (LEP), a topic of great importa...
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PMID: 21337980
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Medical Care (48)12 2010
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The impact of language proficiency as a potential contributor to ethnic disparities in mental health care has received less attention than other factors. Data from the National Latino and Asian American Study were examined to assess the impact of limited English proficiency (LEP) on access to and qu...
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PMID: 21063226
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Medical Care (48)12 2010
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Our study documents that many hospitals are not providing language services in a manner consistent with federal law. Enforcement of these regulations is inconsistent, and thus does not motivate hospitals to comply. Compliance will likely come with new guidelines, currently being written, by many of...
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PMID: 21063229
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Ménière's disease (MD) is a chronic disorder of the inner ear affecting health-related quality of life in 85% of patients. Although different studies have evaluated the impact of MD on quality of life, sexual health has not been investigated in these patients. The aim of this study was to assess se...
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PMID: 21112573
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The aim of this study was to identify difficulties and barriers to reporting clinically suspect situations, possibly caused by avian influenza (AI), and to explore possible incentives to reporting such situations, with the ultimate aim of facilitating early detection of AI outbreaks. Focus group sess...
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PMID: 21309445
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Medical Care (48)11 2010
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Physician-nurse communication has been identified as one of the main obstacles to progress in patient safety. Breakdowns in communication between physicians and nurses often result in errors, many of which are preventable. Recent research into nurse/physician communication has borrowed heavily from...
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PMID: 20829721
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Physiotherapy (96)3 2010
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It appears that physiotherapy provision for female patients with Pakistani backgrounds may be failing to meet their needs, which may affect compliance. In order to address these issues, culturally competent health care needs to be provided and the following points are worthy of consideration:
Copyri...
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PMID: 20674659
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Community dental health (27)3 2010
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Our data on preschoolers confirm the worldwide literature shared statement that social class as well as immigration status are determinants of oral health....
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PMID: 21046908
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We propose the use of an approach to evaluation that can be undertaken in a clinical setting when concerns regarding child sexual abuse are unclear or ambiguous and other systems are not involved, thus providing an option for the nondisclosing child often discussed in the "delayed disclosure" litera...
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PMID: 20924912
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Cultural norms affect the likelihood that child sexual abuse will be discovered by an adult or disclosed by a child. Cultural norms also affect whether abused children's families will report child sexual abuse to authorities. This article explores the ways ethnic and religious culture affect child s...
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PMID: 20924908
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We call for attention to several practice areas, including (a) prioritizing a child's mental health needs while minimizing disruption of forensic processes, (b) developing best practices and models of child sexual abuse assessment and evaluation when a one-session forensic interview is insufficient,...
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PMID: 20924907
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This article describes the state of knowledge about extended assessments/forensic evaluations in situations of possible sexual abuse. It provides a critical review of the modest body of relevant research, describes two models for extended assessments, and presents descriptive survey findings of 62 p...
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PMID: 20924911
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Annals of Surgery (252)2 2010
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ITC deficits adversely affect patient care. There is a need for standard measures to evaluate this process. Effective and standardized communication among healthcare professionals during the perioperative process facilitates surgical safety....
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PMID: 20647929
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We found frequent use of cultural alternatives, such as herbal medications, obtaining care from Mexican doctors, and some use of traditional healers. The role of religiosity is studied: prayer is viewed as fundamental to health, but the church is not perceived as an aid in physical health-seeking. H...
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PMID: 20693732
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We sent a self-administered questionnaire to heads of medical and nursing departments in public healthcare services in the canton of Basel-Stadt (N = 205, response rate 56%). Strategies used to communicate with foreign-language speaking patients differed, depending on the patient's language. While n...
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PMID: 20717543
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This paper considers the role of multilingualism in health care by drawing on the results of an empirical study conducted in three public hospitals in the Western Cape, South Africa. Data were collected through questionnaires, staff and patient interviews as well as ethnographic observation. The foc...
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PMID: 20452713
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Sweden has a long history of conducting questionnaire-based Public Health Surveys (PHS) to monitor health determinants. As Sweden has become a multi-ethnic society a linguistically adapted instrument to collect data was first used in Stockholm PHS 2006 to overcome the barrier of lack of Swedish lang...
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PMID: 20534633
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Most patients dropped out due to expectations of a specific medical diagnosis and pain relief as the main aims of rehabilitation treatment. Other reasons for drop-out detected in the interviews were: lack of acknowledgement of the patient's complaints, lack of trust in the rehabilitation physician,...
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PMID: 20549162
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Errors in health care are a leading cause of death and injury, requiring new methods for evaluating the efficacy of health care services. A board of nursing staff member conducted a study to examine perceptions of registered nurses who had been sanctioned for practice errors to ascertain the level o...
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PMID: 20541077
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Social Science and Medicine (70)12 2010
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We analysed 16 family practice consultations with interpreters, 10 with a trained interpreter and 6 with a family member. We found clear differences in communication patterns between consultations with a trained interpreter and consultations with a family member as interpreter. In both cases the Lif...
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PMID: 20378224
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Australian Nursing Journal (17)11 2010
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Family medicine (42)6 2010
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IMGs contribute to the diversity of languages spoken by California physicians....
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PMID: 20526909
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Increasing diversity in the classroom challenges nursing educators to identify issues that complicate teaching (perils), analyze barriers for themselves and their students (pitfalls), and select new strategies for working with nontraditional students (pearls). This article identifies concerns arisin...
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PMID: 20143759
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Swiss medical weekly : official journal of the Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases, the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, the Swiss Society of Pneumology (140)17-18 2010
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In 2006, the communication of 92% of the patients was "good" or "very good". Communication was extremely difficult or impossible in 6% to 7%. No statistically significant difference was found between the number of consultations per patient per mother tongue, irrespective of the patient's ability to...
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PMID: 20175006
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We test an initiative with the staff-based participatory research (SBPR) method to elicit communication barriers and engage staff in identifying strategies to improve communication within our emergency department (ED).
ED staff at an urban hospital with 85,000 ED visits per year participated in a 3....
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PMID: 20382446
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'Al pie de la letra': crafting a report card for elderly Spanish-only-speaking patients with stroke.
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Crafting a culturally sensitive tool for promoting treatment adherence in elderly Spanish-only-speaking patients with stroke within an urban health system using a participatory methodology is feasible. The efficacy of this new report card should be tested in a randomized controlled trial....
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PMID: 20167904
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Case studies are based on actual medical negligence claims or medicolegal referrals; however certain facts have been omitted or changed by the author to ensure the anonymity of the parties involved. This article discusses a Medical Board complaint involving an allegation of failure to use an interpr...
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PMID: 20372686
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We present a descriptive comparison of consultations with NESB and English speaking patients recorded between April 2007 and March 2009. Indigenous persons were excluded from the analysis to give a clearer picture of NESB patients of non- Australian origin. Only statistically significant differences...
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PMID: 20372675
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Critical Care Nurse (30)2 2010
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Pediatric Emergency Care (26)4 2010
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The purpose of this study was to uncover the structure of the lived experience of feeling misunderstood. Parse's phenomenological-hermeneutic research method was used to answer the research question: What is the structure of the lived experience of feeling misunderstood? Extraction-synthesis reveale...
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PMID: 20378917
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Geriatric Nursing (31)2 2010
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We conducted focus groups with older adults of Chinese descent. Specifically, we explored their perceptions and self-management practices regarding treatment adherence, lifestyle decisions, and patient-provider communication within the context of their culture.
Copyright 2010. Published by Mosby, In...
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PMID: 20381709
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This study examines the psychosocial needs of the children affected by AIDS. Eight primary school children aged 10-13 years who lost parents to AIDS or whose parents were living with HIV were closely followed for a period of one year and qualitative data on the psychosocial challenges they faced wer...
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PMID: 20390510
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Many tools are available for the assessment of pain in nonverbal older adults; however, guidelines are needed to help clinicians select the proper instrument for use in the nursing home setting. This article describes a project to identify clinically useful pain-behavioral assessment tools that have...
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PMID: 20128526
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Journal of Asthma (47)2 2010
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Five major themes of barriers to successful self-management were identified, including personal constraints, social constraints, communication failures, medication issues, and health care system barriers to collaboration with their clinicians. Patients most frequently reported lack of communication...
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PMID: 20170328
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This article describes a project to develop collaborative working between palliative care nurse specialists and community matrons for patients with a non-cancer diagnosis. Pathways to clarify decision-making in end-of-life care were created as part of the project and were subsequently developed into...
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PMID: 20357704
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Genetics in Medicine (12)2 2010
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To inform development of a culturally sensitive hereditary breast and ovarian cancer communication initiative and related clinical genetic services.
Five focus groups were conducted with 51 female and male Latinos. Educational materials were designed to communicate information about hereditary breas...
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PMID: 20061960
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Pediatric Emergency Care (26)2 2010
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Ergonomics (53)1 2010
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This paper uses a systemic approach to accident investigation, based upon AcciMaps, to model the events leading up to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Underground station in July 2005. The model captures many of the findings of the Independent Police Complaints Commission's repor...
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PMID: 20069477
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American Annals of the Deaf (155)3 2010
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Being Deaf and in prison is a horror. The main fear of prison inmates, whether Deaf or hearing, is that they will be raped, killed, or subjected to other forms of violence. Such fears are based in reality. The recent overcrowding of jails and prisons has increased these problems significantly. A maj...
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PMID: 21138044
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American Annals of the Deaf (155)1 2010
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In Brazil, recent regulations require changes in private and public health systems to make special services available to deaf patients. In the present article, the researchers analyze the perceptions of 25 sign language-using patients regarding this assistance. The researchers found communication di...
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PMID: 20503906
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American Annals of the Deaf (155)1 2010
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We found no published accounts of Internet interventions promoting smoking cessation among Deaf individuals. The purpose of our project was to create and pilot test a prototype interactive Web site that provides users with information in American Sign Language related to smoking cessation. We utiliz...
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PMID: 20503910
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We will recruit 40 individuals with severe dementia who have no, or very limited, verbal communication. Data on inter-rater reliability and frequency of all items and exploratory factor analysis will be used to identify items to be retained. Test-retest and inter-rater reliability for the new measur...
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PMID: 20579370
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Audio, Transactions of the IRE Professional Group on (15 Suppl 3) 2010
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We used the 2005 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) to test the hypothesis that Hispanics who are less comfortable speaking English would differ from Hispanics who are comfortable speaking English with respect to trust in health information sources and media use. Hispanics/Latinos com...
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PMID: 21154097
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Utilization of the Iowa Model of evidence-based practice (EBP) helps to facilitate change in nursing care. This was observed when an alteration in pain-rating assessment scales needed to be implemented at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, NY Research showed that the Critical Care Pain...
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PMID: 20882820
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This article explores ways in which practitioners can enable better access to a range of health and social care services for children and adults with autism and Asperger syndrome. Practical strategies to improve communication and reduce anxiety in patients with autism are discussed.
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PMID: 20373630
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